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NAVAL N EWS. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 17.—Arrived his Majesty's Clip Valiant, of 74 guns, Capt. JOHN BLIGH, from a cruize (,ff Bochetort. Arrived the Defender and Peruvian gun-brigs from a cruize. Arrived the Success, Morgan, from Liverpool; Hope, German, Lime Trader, —, troM London ; Thomas and Mary, Godfrey, from Amsterdam ; Phoenix, —, and Dolphin, ----, from Stockholm ; Olive Branch, Gilbert, tro ll ) Guernsey ; and Tyrine, —, from Youghall.' Also his Majesty's ship Hope, from the Mediterranean. SHEERNESS, JULY 17.—A1l the transports have sailed for Margate. Roads. The fleet has signal for every person to go on board. The fleet and gun-boats are all expe6ted to sail to• morrow. Came down from Chatham, and anchored at the treat Nore, his Majesty's ship Courageux. Arrived the Trompeuse, Cordelia and Cracker, to join the Expedition. Au the gun-boats are gone out and anchored at the Great Nore. The following ships are lying here, and are going with the EXpeditiou Namur, Couragru't, Princess of Orange, Leyden, Ada mint, Sabrina, ls►s, Ulysses, Rebuff, Rakigh, , Gallant, Fly, Reindeer, Cordeiia, Appelles, Cracker, Trompeuse, Flamer. And eighty sail of gun-boats. Thunder and Etna, bombs. PORTUGUESE PAPERS. LISBON, JUNE 29. —Yesterday arrived here about 3000 troops from England, under convoy of La Nymph frigate, Capt. PBRCY. 011 of 3000 tutu ariNgd on the rill] not ill Mu h. 1.-1 where it was joined on the 13th, by a corps front Conventecal, and then marched to Mirandnia and Alcuescar. The Walsirzglzam Packet, Capt. RosErts, arrived here on the 25tb, , with the Mail of the 14th inst. ABEP,NTES, JUNE 18.—His Excellency Sir Aite I'HUR Wa•LLESLEY, has addressed the following let. ter to the Supreme Junta of Badojot,: " MY LORDS, Abrantes, Tune 4. They write from Idattba, under date of the 12th instant, and from Castello-Blanco on tho 1 - 4 ih, that a corps of 7000 men assembled there, and a park of artillery was expected. On the loth the French attempted to pass the Bridge of Alcantara, but it " I had the honour to receive your Excellencies ast letter, of the 16th June, and feel concerned to 14y, that I found it impossible to answer sooner, haying thought it right first, to give the necessary orders to the troops under my command. " it is my intention to mare* by the road of Castillo-Blauco and Coria CO Placentia, and to Banas through Tie;as. I request your Excellencies will direct the Magistrates to provide quarters on that March for 30,000 men and 6000 horses, including cavalry, artillery, infantry, and baggage. " I have the honour, &c. " A. WELLESI.EY." ......a.. was broken down by our troops. The French made preparations to retreat to Madrid on the approach of the . combined Army. CIIA.VES, JUNE 13.—Intelligence was yesterday received that the division of Marshal NaY is marching to Castello Viejo, and a French Courier is said to have been intercepted, with orders for all the French Marshals in Spain to retreat to France. We hope this piece of information will be confirmed. By intelligence communicated, from Pampeluna, by his Excellency Marquis de AYERVE, one of the Lords of the Household of his Majesty FERDINAND VII. we learn that his Majesty, and hiS august bro. ther, Don CARLOS, enjoy the best state of health, and stilt reside in the Palace of Valencey. They are kept in the most profound ignorance with re gard to all the occurrences of the day, and not even allowed to read the French newspapers. The park where they are permitted to take the air does not extend beyond a league. His Majesty's household, and even. his Physicians are separated from their august master. Heaven, which watches over inno cence and virtue, will not leave unpunished the un precedented wickedness . and atrocity of the monster who keeps in confinement the objeEts of the hope of all good Spaniards.—(Liston Diary, June 22.) • According to the last accounts from Spain, Gene si! BLAKE'S army was daily reinforced. The enemy' s loss in the last battle exceeded 2000 men, and they also lost much artillery, and a large quantity of mi litary stores. The army of Alcaniz has entered Arragon sixteen thousand strong, and was received under the most enthusiastic acclamations of " Long live FERDINAND the With." Lisßow, Jnrrs 27.—The Governor of Oporto, General TRANT, has issued a Proclamation, dated Head-quarters, Oporto, 12th June, direa.ing all the Portnguese troops dispersed in consequence of the last occupation of Oporto by the French, immedi ately to rejoin their different corps on pain of being apprehended and punished according to the articles of" war. The following notice has been published at Oporto :-- , " The Board of Commissioners appointed by his Excellency the Governor of this place, General N. TRANT, to seize all property belonging to the in tended French Government, makes known to all per sons, of every quality and description in this City and its district, as well as in the provinces of the North, that they are to be accountable for all such sums of mo ney, 'plate, provisions, warlike stores, and all other effects, as shall not be declared to this Board within eight days', by those who inhabit this city, and within 20 days by those who reside in the other provinces, and key shall also be tried by the Criminal Tribu- Qat OL this city ; and, if conviCled, punished as g ui lty of embezzlement and theft. With regard io the P °rtUguese and Allied Nations' effeEts, rights, and claims; which, in consequence of the occupation of the French, were seized upon by the said intended Government, the respeCtive proprietors thereof may address their claims to this Board. MACROBAN FULVAS MO:it:WIEN BORRI15." COIN/BRAt JUNE 22.—They write from Valencia, under date of the lOth of June, that after the battle of San Payo, the French retreated to Pontevedra, wher e they were attacked by Genera/ lquart.Lo, and defeated with considerable loss. They then retreat ed to Culdas, and farther to Santiago. Six thousand English are expeEted to disembark in Vigo. Letters from Basaln; in Catalonia; advise, that the Germans continue to desert, and that the inhabi ants of Ampundam have risen in a mass against the French. In letters from Tarissa, a revolution is, said to have taken place in Barcelona against the French. VICTOR is at Torremetcka, with 6000 men ; in Alulpartida, are 1600 ; ',AMU has as many ; MESLIN is at the head of 2000 men in Montanches ; and another General is with 1,500 men in Arqui jell. The rest of the French foirce . in Spain, which i, estimated at 22,000 men, are divided into detach inents which overrun and rob the country. A divi- ‘")111, TO THE EDITOII. In Me Edinburgh Review for the month of Apiii I:,A, upon the Publication by Mr. Newenharn otithe StAte of Ireland, is the following Paragraph " deeply indented coasts, her extensive lakes, and the fiunlbel, sae, and direction of her Jivers will in4vitably ze. cure to tier a most excellent system of navigation as soon as the capitals of individuals are sufficiently large, the profits of employing than in other ways sufficiently reduced, and, . above all,the quantity - of goods to be carried sufficiently eon ,siderable to encourage private subscriptions, and secure their effectual application." • The Reviewers then proceed to say— " But that this great obje6t cannot be completed until this period arrives, is nearly certain ; and how far, under all the circumstances of the case, a very beneficial stimulus can be given to it, by the Government Advances recommended.by Mr. Newenham, may reasonably be questioned, when we hear so much of the inveterate propensity to jobbing which prevails in Ireland in the experkiture of Public Money. 1 t was no lodger ago than the end of last March, that Sir John Newport stated in Parliatnent, that of the 500,0001. granted at the Union for the Inland Navigation of Ireland, only about 27,0001. had been drawn for in the course of the eight years that had since elapsed,of which 60001. had gone in salaries; so that the superintendance of the Expenditure of 2 I ,0001. for Public Purposes, had already cost 6,0001." The general imputation of an inveterate propensity to job&ing is thus especially fixed upon the Direc tors-General of Navigation. Such unqualified assertions, so confidently given to the Public, however improbable they must ap pear to any reasoning mind, upon the very face of the statements, will tlevertheice‘a übtein cnciir. The Reviewers in the same Publication declare that, " what they want is a collettion of well authenticat ed facts," that they are in search of " faCts and in torMation." Now most persons into whose hands that Review may fall, will indolently presume that the Edinburgh Reviewers could not possibly have gone out of their way to advance so serious 3 charge, unless they had first in their search ascertained that it is founded in truth. Uncontradided, the assertions would be taken as admitted fads. Not knowing whom to address as the Writers or Editors of TheEdinburghßeview ,you,Sir, are request ed to inform those Gentlemen, through the extensive currency ofyour Paper, that if they had inquired from any one acquainted with the condud of that Board, if they had consulted the Returns made to Parlia ment, and printed, or if they had taken the trouble of asking Sir John Newport, they must immediately have been satisfied that the misconduct which they have imputed to the Directors-General has not the smallest foundation in truth. They might then have known that upwards of 350,0001. have been adually issued, comprising Grants for the Royal Canal, the Barrow; the Limerick, the Newry, the Shannon, and the Tyrone Navigations, and for Dublin Port and Dublin Harbour ; that -a further sum is engaged to be issued upon the fulfilment of contra&S, and, upon inquiry, they might nave learned that an agreement is depending, which, if it shall succeed, will, with the fells and Poundage, payable to the Public on Issues from the Treasury, a l it - oust entirely exhaust the whole of the Grant. By a very little trouble they might have colleaed these facts well authenticated, and they would have learned with how little truth ur justice that Board could be charged with an in veterate propensity to jobbing in the expenditure of the public 'money, or with inattention to the pur poses of their institution. The Reviewers are all honourable men, "and no doubt will do what they can to wipe out a stain so unjustly cast - from their pen ; nevertheless, as up right men, they will still feel a wounded refle&ion (and it may happily indUce them to curb an in veterate propensity to censure), that although they use every endeavour within. their power to remedy the mischief, it is not possible that it can be Com pletely done away, because many will have seen the charge who never will sev its contradielion. Dub/in, X. X. American Papers to the 12th of June inclusive, have been received: The Pa* had arrived with the intelligence of the exceptions taken by the Bri tish Government to the arrangements made by Mr. ERSKINE. The preparations for the eelebratiou of the renewal of free intercourse with Britain were, of course, suspended: The 'papers contain accounts of the proceedings of Congress, which shew that the American Government Is disposed to prevent the abuse of the rights of American citizens, by means of protections, obtained by foreign seamen by false swearing. Above ten thousand of these false pro tatfilions are supposed to be obtained in this mangier every year. Mr. DANA. had brought in a Bill to pre vent this abuse. This Bill, which was well receiv ed, and likely to pass, would do more than any other measure that could be devised' to prevent disputes between the Officers of his Britannic Majesty, just ly claiming British subje&s from American vessels, and American Commanders wishing to prote& all rightful citizens of the „United States.—Mr. DANA has proposed also to,exact from the masters of all American vessels a security that they will not enter any port declared to be in a state of blockade. From these voluntary propositions, containing much of the stipulations which Mr. ERSKINE was expeeted to ' It is not a little curious, that at a Meeting, on have comprehended in his treaty, we are enabled the 4th instant, or Americans at (Paris, to celebrate to hope that the amicable adjustment, the prospect the Anniversary of the Independence of the United of which gave so much satisfaction to us, and to our 'States, among the ornamental emblems prepared American brethren, will not experience any impedi- for the occasion, France and America were repre men t. , , sented as reposing together in the Temple of Peace, The Governor of Quebec, as appears by a speech with poor Old England at their feet. BUONAPARTE'S delivered by him in the month of May last, has pro- Orders and Decrees have prevented every thing like rogued the Provincial Parliament, with a view to its amity from prevailing between France and America, immediate ' dissolution. He speaks his mind very and every moment seems to threaten a rupture be ingenuously to the House, arid tells them, that in- tweet the two States, 'particularly as this'conntry is stead of furthering the public business, their whole adopting every conelliatory measure towards America time has been occupied in personal animosities and consistent with her own dignity. But that England useless discussions on meaanres, the principles of should be represented as prostrate at the feet of France which had been long fixed and acknowledged. He and America, is ridiculous, since her naval trident en.: dismisses them to their constituents, to defend their . , ables her to bid defiance to the sceptre of usurpation condual in the best way they can. . in France, the iron crown of Italy, and all the If it be true, as reported, that LANNES beheld the vassal states of Buosiarmers, and is the best friend approach,of death with terror and dismay, and even that America could find to proteet shed tears at the awful fate immediately before him, arro g ant T y rant, who des p ises comiher against an nerce in compa it skews, what could hardly have been expected, rison , with military renown, and who would willaig that his atrocities had not steeled him against the ly purchase that at the expence of every State in the power of conscience. Considering the multiplicity world, and even the ruin of the country which is of his` crimes, it is nut wonderful that he should f cursed with his domination. • have felt some compunction, nor is it at wonder- I BREAD.—There was no Court of Aldermen to ful that BUONAPARTB should have beheld such emo- I day. The Lord-Mayor, after inspecting the returns dons with contempt or indignation; but the same of the Bakers' Company' and Meal-weighers, ordered awful moment will come to him, and dreadful in• it to advance id. per peck. deed will be his death-bed if he should be sensible The King of Wirtemberg has ordered the removal of his approaching end, since the whole history of , of Oe public cheats from Stutgard to Strasburgh, mankind cannot produce so bad a man, or one' , T 1 owing to the incursions of the Tyrolean patriots. who has occasioned so much misery in 'the world. he new drama of. The Foundling of the Forest • When Colonel WARDLE'S Solicitor went 'to Mrs, has made such an impres.ion on the Public, and CLARKE, previous to the late trial, to caution her as promises to be so Vet y productive, that the Hay to her evidence, and frighten her against the terrible market Proprietors may be said to possess a Diamorid voss-examiisatiors 'of Sedeant BEST, she told him mine. that she considered Col.Ws RDLE was the greatest fool The Austrians have thrown a bridge over the. Da she had ever met with, but he really seemed to be nube near Wolfsthal, one post station from Pres a much greater. It is not true that, in anslker to an burgh, and fortified it with a redoubt on the right inquiry in Court whose proieaiert she was then un- bank, and ereeted, some batteries on the left. der, she archly said Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S. No a The. new King of Sweden, CHARLES XIII. has such question was asked. abolished the custom observed among the Officers of The French Minister at Hamburgh lately ordered the army every since the Revolution in 1772, of an edition of the Correspondenten, which contained wearing a white scarf round the left arm, owing to the Parole of the Austrian army, alluding to the bat- its rendering them, in skirmishes and general en tles of the 21st and 22d, of May, to be suppressed, gagements, easily- distinguished by the enemy's and the Editor to be summoned before the Civil Au- mails,nieri. thorities, by whom he was heavily tined. '. The King of Bavaria has ordered another con- Gen. AM-ENDS raised, in the Saxon territories, a scription to be enforced throughout his territory.— corps of 1500 men, for whom he obliged the City Ali males between the years of 17 and GO are to be of Dresden to furnish uniforms. He also loaded ta,ken. The reasons asrigned for this measure are, 120 waggons with ammunition and military stores the loss which the Bavarian Regiments ha.s sustbin from the arsenals, which he dispatched to Prague, in ed in 15 engagements, and the increasing boldness Bohemia. , of the TYrOCeal)..e. . REPORT. SHERIFF'S COURT, ftLY BURCHALL, ESQ'. RIDGE AGAINST SALTER, ESQ.--FOX Mr. H.vltrisotr stated, that this was a species action which rarely came before the Jury ef a County; but particularly the County of Middlesex, it was an adioo brought by Mr. Ridge, a Gentleman of large landed property; in the neighbourhood of Edgware, against Samuel Salter, Esq. and the object of the salon was to recover damages for an injury sustained by the defendant coming upon the. lands of the plaintiff, with hounds and horses, for the purpose of turning out and hunting foxes. The Learned COunsel observed, that an atlion like the present might seem extraordinary to those who considered hunting as a lawful amusetnent. It certainly was arr amusement less injurious, when enjoyed by those per sons at a distance from town, who having landed pro perty themselves, knew bow to• partake of the diver sion without injuring the property of others ; but it was a very different thing when such an amusement was resorted to in the. of of London, where, from the value of the lane, and a variety Of - circumstances, the injury far exreded what could possibly be sustained in the country. The defendant, Mr. Salter, was a Member of what „as l a r we rly called the Berkeley Hunt, and vas now-a part pro prietor of the p-ick of hounds which belonged to Lord Berkeley when he was living. In the tune cif Lord Berkeley, they drew tor the foxes at a consi derable distance from London, and though they did injury, it was comparatively trifling to what the subje& of the present aOion. The hounds were now turned out within- 10 miles of Lo\Ann, and notice was given of the time. The consequence was, that every horse-dealer, every clerk, in short, every person who could procure an animal with four legs and a tail,was sure to attend this hunt, to the amount of perhaps two hundred or more. These persoas having no land of their own, had of course but little regard to that of others, and they galloped indiscrr: minately over the fields of the Plamti . tf, to drain which considerable sums of money had been ex pended. They had thereby' not only destroyed the effeCt of the measures he had adopted for draining and cultivating his land, but they had rendered the land itself less valuable to the proprietor, for some time to come, Having dwelt more at large o n t h e nature , of the injury, he concluded by trusting the Jury would give such damages as would prevent a repetition of it. It - was proved that the Defendant had received notice not to bring his hounds npon the Plaintiff's lands. It was also proved that the Plaintiff's lands had been in an expensive mode of drainage, which had been rendered ineffedual by tire; trampling of the horses ; that the Defendant was sectshunting, after he had been warned off, and that the person who had warned him, instead of being attended to, had been threatened with a horse-whipping. Mr. STEWART addressed the Jiiry on behalf of the Defendant ; he maintained that hunting was a h'iw ful recreation ; that by the ancient law every man was sanelioned in following the hounds over the hinds of others, doing as little harm - as possible. He ad mitted that the Defendant had no right to go upon the Plaintes lands and turn out the foxes, and for hiving done so, he had suffered judgment to go by default; but he felt perfealy assured the Jury would not consider this a case void, called for vindiaive damages. -Mr. UNDER SHERIFF stated that the Defendant had admitted the trespass, and the only question was the quantum of damages. The trespass was not excusable by its having been inadvertent--,it was a wilful trespass, commuted atter warning had been given by the Plaintiff. The Jury consulted a short time, and returned a verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages 501. COURT OF CHANCERY, [VLY'I7, SIR T. COCKBURNE AND OTHERS V. THOMPSON AND OTHERS. Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY moved, on behalf 'of the Plantiffs, that certain sums of money, in the hands of Messrs. Prescott and Co. and Sir Walter Stirlim : 7, and Co. bankers, be paid into Court. The circum stances upon which this application was . founded were the following :—A society had been founded under the denomination of ", The Philanthropic Annuity Society," for the purpose of granting an nuities upon more equitable and advantageous terms than were before offered • to the public. The Plaintiffs were chosen and appointed Di ret-fors, and the Defendant Thompson, Soli citor to the Society, the funds of which were to be . paid into the hands of the above-mentioned bankers. The Society, however, had scarcely graht ed more than ope or two annuities before it was dis covered that they were disabled from carryicg their plan into general execution, by the 17th of Geo. 111. which required a specific enumeration of the names of the grantors of the annuities, which was in this case imeompatihle with the nature of the Institution, the shares being in a constant state of fluatsation with respe& to their holders. It therefore became ne cessary to dissolve the Society, acid distribuie the funds to their respedive owners. The Defindont Thompson had received a good deal of money tt. he had not accounted for, and it was therefo re thought expedient to apply to his Lordship to or der the money to. be brought into Court, to the purpose ot. facilitating the diAribution thereof. Messrs. Prescott and Co. and Messrs. Sri,ii ? ,. 4 and Co. expressed, by their respective Coup,el, their readiness to pay the money in their hands, praying however, to be allowed to retain in their hands sufficient to reimburse themselves for tt e costs of their answer. Mr, AGAR, on behalf of the Defendant Thompson, said, he entertained some doubt whether the• C 0..:; had power to lay its hands on the property of partners, on a bill filed by a certain number of them against the others, before the answers of Ile laot..r had been put in. He also begged leave to state •ji;.! Mr. Thompson was himself proprietor of shares the Society to a much larger amount than tl;ose held by the Plaintiffs, and had likewise ei;,iws against the Society much exceeding any baidn: his hands beknging to them. The LORD CHANCELLOR.--" This money be best in Court, as those who have got it setfo have co objeoion to deliver it up. It is then:tor, well to take it, while they are in that humour. At